The Human Library: a careers event with a difference!
On April 25th, a selected group of Year 8 students attended a special Careers event at Blenheim Palace. The students were divided in to teams of three and tasked with extracting as much Careers information as possible from over twenty local professionals (including various employees from Blenheim Palace), who kindly volunteered to share their experiences […]
Chip Lit Festival Author Talk
A selection of students from Year 8-10 enjoyed a wonderful talk by award-winning author Patrice Lawrence as part of this year’s Chip Lit Festival School’s programme. Patrice’s talk about her personal background and pathway to becoming a full time author was both engaging and informative. The students loved hearing about her books, Orangeboy and Indigo […]
‘Science in your Future’ event
Twelve Year 11 girls had the opportunity to visit the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory as part of the ‘Science in your Future’ programme. They enjoyed an inspirational talk by Dr Ceri Brenner, a senior scientist at the Central Laser Facility. They also won a competition to build the ‘best solar car’ from cardboard, straws and BluTac, […]
Year 11 Oxford Spires trip
A group of Year 11 students attended an Open Day at Trinity College as part of the Oxford University Spires Programme. The Spires Programme aims to encourage and support students considering applying to Russell Group universities. The day started with an introduction to the university and a talk about applications, living accommodation and information about […]
Year 7 Humanities trip to ‘The Living Rainforest’
Our Year 7 Humanities students enjoyed a wonderful educational trip to ‘The Living Rainforest’ to learn more about global warming, waste and deforestation; subjects they have been studying in the classroom. They learnt more about the four layers of the rainforest and the many species of animals that live there. The students loved seeing lots […]
The Squashed Tomato Challenge!
The whole of Year 8 took up the Squash Tomato Challenge as part of the Y8 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) day run by Science Oxford. The challenge – A real life problem affecting people in Nepal to design and build a model to move tomatoes down a mountain. The problem: In Nepal many […]
Particle Physics masterclass at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
On the 8th March 12 Chipping Norton Physics students visited the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot. The trip was aimed at giving sixth formers a deepened understanding of the particle physics section of their A-Level studies. During the day there was a series of lectures from leading university professors and Large Hadron Collider particle physicists. […]
Sporting Success
Our Year 7 students have had a fantastic few weeks in West Oxfordshire competitions. Firstly, our girls swam remarkably well in their gala held at Chipping Norton Leisure Centre. The events ranged from individual races in freestyle, breaststroke, fly and backstroke to the medley. Overall the girls finished in first place and now go on […]
Ski trip 2019
The ski trip ran over the February half term and 29 budding skiers ventured their way across Europe to Zell Am See, Austria where 6 days of full ski instructing were waiting for them. Surrounded by beautiful weather, our skiers took to the snow after the first day or two and were ready to work […]
Create and Cook Competition
A group of Year 9 students attended a food demonstration and tasting session hosted by Min Raisman from fit2cook and Ms Blake, a demonstration chef from the Coop. They started by cooking beef steak served with blue cheese and sautéed broccoli with parmesan cheese. There was a lovely display of other local food products such as […]